United Cargo chooses Staff Management at Denver airport 
SMCargo, the air cargo managed staffing service of Staff Management/SMX, has begun providing cargo handling for United at Denver international airport (DEN, USA). The service provider currently partners with United Cargo in the carrier's hubs in Houston (TX) and San... more
From South America to the world 
The Latam Group’s history goes back to 1929, when its Chilean part LAN was founded. It was privatised in the 1990s and then merged with Brazil’s TAM in 2012. Today it is the largest freight carrier in Latin America. What are its prospects for the future? Chief executive officer... more
First unitised direct train connects Coevorden and Nässjo
Samskip has launched a new five times weekly rail connection between Coevorden in the north of the Netherlands and Nässjö, Sweden, in its second significant enhancement of its Swedish services in September 2019. The new link is Samskip’s first direct Sweden-Netherlands rail... more
K Line's sustainability acknowledged again
Japan-headquartered K Line has once more been included in the Asia Pacific Index of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), one of the leading global indices for ESG investing since 1999. ESG investing describes an investment strategy which takes account of enterprises’... more
Cebu Pacific Air in the cargo cloud
The Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific Air has renewed its contract with QuantumID Technologies to ramp up Smartkargo for CEB Cargo. The partnership, which CEB as the first Asian carrier commenced in 2013, will continue the cloud-based real-time management of the air cargo business... more
Remaining 100% CO2-neutral
Schuon carries out all its transport services within Germany while maintaining a CO2-neutral balance. In 2018, the trucks emitted 16,612.0 t of CO2 according to the tank-to-wheel assessment tool. On the other hand, the company saved 16,773.8 t CO2 in the same period of... more
Awards for two intermodal veterans
The Containerisation and Intermodal Institute (CII) presented its Connie Award to William J. "Bill" Shea, CEO of Direct Chassis Link. The gala event was held at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach, CA (USA). In his presentation remarks, Michal J. DiVirgilio, CII... more
Prologis builds logistics facility in Le Havre
The port company Haropa and the real estate developer Prologis have signed an agreement to build several logistics facilities on a 286,000 sqm area near the port of Le Havre (France). "We welcome the construction of competitive logistics hubs near the multimodal terminal.... more
Leipzig forwarder buys thirteen new semitrailers
The Leipzig (Germany)-based company Lamkewitz Schüttgut-Transporte und Tiefbau has been deploying MAN trucks for years and is now renewing its fleet by purchasing thirteen new vehicles. The company recently took delivery of the first eleven MAN TGX 18.500 semitrailers with... more
Synergy Group opens new office in Copenhagen
Growing demand from European shipowners for ship management services has prompted Synergy Group to open a new office in Copenhagen, Denmark. The new office, Synergy’s 13th worldwide, is headed by Rune Zeuthen, general manager, Synergy Marine (Europe). Zeuthen joined Synergy... more